More light has been shed on the injury that will prevent
featherweight champion Jose Aldo from
defending his title against Frankie
Edgar at UFC 153.

On Tuesday afternoon, during practice at Nova Uniao headquarters in
Rio de Janeiro, the athlete was forced to stop his training due to
intense pain in his right foot, which was injured during a
motorcycle accident just over one week ago. Team leader Andre
Pederneiras immediately vetoed the fight against Edgar and
informed the UFC of the development.

“It’s been almost 10 days since Aldo’s motorcycle accident and he
had improved greatly. His injuries had already healed almost
completely, but his right foot was very swollen. Today, during his
first sparring workout, he couldn’t plant his right foot because of
the pain,” Pederneiras told Sherdog.com on Tuesday. “Because of his
and our overwhelming desire that this fight against Edgar would
happen, we tried to push it a bit, but we talked after practice and
saw that he wasn’t able to train for the fight. We would like the
fight [to be] postponed but the opponent kept.”

Aldo, who would have competed for the second time in Rio de Janeiro
as UFC champion, regretted the incident.

“I apologize to my fans for not being able to fight at UFC 153,
something I really wanted. It was a huge thrill to defend this belt
at the last event in the city, and it would be even more wonderful
to do it again now, against an opponent like Frank Edgar,” said
Aldo. “I tried everything until the last second to be inside the
Octagon, but it didn’t happen. Hopefully the UFC keeps the opponent
and postpones this meeting, because I really want to face him.”

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